(New Life Ranch) We have some exciting news; we traded motor homes! We have now have one with a slide in the living area and a second slide in the bedroom! The slide in the bedroom is what we were wanting, as that turns the bed to the side of the room, and allows the whole back wall for closet! We have found, and I have mentioned, that it’s not the amount of clothes we need, it’s the variety of seasons~~I was forever moving the warm clothes out of the totes in the basement of the bus and putting some [View Full Entry]

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Here it is, the final stretch on our journey down the "mother road". We have spent the past week in a Dodge Magnum driving across farm land, cruising through half forgotten towns, and eating the best American food you could ask for. I have to say, I am quite familiar with the interior of the car, but it has proven to be the ultimate American grand tourer. Sure, I may not need 340 hp for this trip which is primarily 45 or 55 mph speed limits, but it is always nice to have it on tap. Our last excursion took us [View Full Entry]

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Ok, I promised that in the next update I would reveal the coolest attraction on the Springfield to Oklahoma City run. It actually was quite unexpected. Kind of that feeling when you think you have spent all of your money, then you find a twenty hiding in another pocket. We pulled into Arcadia to see the Round Barn to snap a few photographs, then drove west into the sunset. As soon as we began to accelerate Misti and I noticed something in the distance. I could not tell for sure, but it appeared to be metal slats in the shape of [View Full Entry]

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Hello to all of you at home!!! I am really really sorry, that I didn't write for a long long time.....es tut mir echt leid, dass ich mich so lange nicht gemeldet habe, aber die letzte Zeit hier war einfach nur verrückt!! Ich habe viel zu wenig geschlafen, soviel erlebt, fast jeden Tag unter Woche den ganzen Tag auf der Uni und lernen und dann von Donnerstag bis Sonntag tausende von Aktivitäten!! Die Uni hier wird immer schwerer und vorallem das Recherchieren hier ist fast nicht mehr möglich...statt ruhiger wird es immer hektischer und viel mehr Events kommen noch auf mich [View Full Entry]

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(New Life Ranch) We got to New Life Ranch in time for the Big Rains….again! We’re thinking about hiring ourselves out to bring rain to “we really need it” areas! We’re located in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains (which aren’t really mountains, they’re just beautiful hills!) It started raining Wednesday evening, and with it came flood warnings, the creek~~which runs right behind us and through the camp~~ flowed way out of its banks, and there was water everywhere. Everywhere that is, except the RV park! With this rocky soil it doesn&rsquo [View Full Entry]

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Three friends and I went hiking on a beautiful late winter day (February 2009) in the Wichita Mountains. This small mountain chain is located in southwest Oklahoma, west of Lamont. These "mountains" (more like glorified hills) are quite different from the Ouachita Mountains in southeast Oklahoma, as the climate is much drier. Enjoy the photos. Coming up in future blogs: Table Rock Lake, MO; Bridger-Teton National Forest, WY; Two Harbors, MN; and San Francisco, CA. [View Full Entry]

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Oklahoma was revealed through foggy and dusty morning air. Again, the diversity of the landscape was stunning. One side of the road would be overtaken over by rolling red hills and huge pointed mounds of red dirt that gave a very rugged, worn feel while the other side of the road would be completely flat. The land told a story of a very worn, roughened and tough life. The feeling of insignificance that Texas had given me was still there throughout Oklahoma. I pulled into the wet parking lot of the Route 66 museum in Elk City, Oklahoma as the fog [View Full Entry]

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We left Shepherd’s Staff Thursday right after work, even though there were high wind warnings (and they weren’t kidding), because we had tickets to the underground salt mine in Hutchinson, which was 250 miles away. We drove slowly, and it worked out. We were going to spend the night in Salina, but when we got there we heard that the wind was going to blow throughout the night, and again Friday, so we decided we’d rather keep going, knowing what conditions we were traveling in, than to risk it the next day. Once we got to Hutchinson, we were glad [View Full Entry]

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A weekend road trip in May 2009 to the Talimena Scenic Byway in southeast Oklahoma provided many sterling sights, thanks to departing thunderstorms that occurred during the morning hours. For those in this region of the country, a road trip on this beautiful and very quiet highway is a must. Hiking opportunities abound here, as well, with good terrain exercise on the Winding Stair Mountain hike. The trails were too muddy on this day, but the royal greens of the foliage and the ominous low-hanging clouds and fog clinging to the hillsides made this a perfect weekend outing. [View Full Entry]

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Hey an alle zu Hause!!! Sorry dass ich mich soooo lange nicht gemeldet habe via BLOG, aber zweimal als ich es versucht hatte, hat das Internet nicht funktioniert und ansonsten war es immer sehr, sehr stressig und lustig und aufregend und total verplant hier!!! Ich hoff es geht euch allen gut und schick euch ganz viele liebe Grüsse nach Hause!!! (Ich freu mich noch immer total auf den Tag, wo ich wieder nach Hause fliege, auch wenn es hier sehr sehr schön ist, aber daheim ist es doch am schönsten!) Die letzten beiden Wochenenden waren total verrückt, wir waren jeden Tag [View Full Entry]

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